On 31 May 2017, Muhammad Shoaib successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Sitting is the new smoking: online complex human activity recognition with smartphones and wearables”. The research has been performed under supervision of Prof. Paul Havinga (promotor) and ir. Hans Scholten(assistant-promotor).

On 27 April 2017, Paul Havinga gave his inaugural lecture, entitled “Smart IoT systems”, in the context of his guest professorship appointment at the School of Information Engineering of the Nanchang University (NCU) in China.

On 11 April 2017, CAMINO and Twente47 jointly organized a workshop around the theme Water in Enschede. Around 55 interested professionals joined the workshop to discuss water problems in and around cities and possible technological solutions.